Oyster and bancroft feed to McFarland
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Anonymous
| This was mentioned in the Wilson overcrowding thread. I think it makes the most sense to feed these kids into a bilingual DCPS-McFarland. it really is the only chance McFarland has at becoming a solid performing middle school. I have a K kid at a Title 1 feeder to McFarland and as of now, McFarland is absolutely a no go for us. All the current feeders are losing the majority of their UMC students (and any diversity they had in the early grades). With Mnt P families and Oyster, there is a better chance McFarland will be succeed and keep more families from the feeder school. I know the oyster and Bancroft families will lose their minds over this and I dont blame you. but the bundaries for deal and wilson have to shrink, that is non negotiable. this just makes sense. |
Anonymous
| Well Bancroft has already demonstrated its willingness to trek to 13th and Upshur Street NW. |
Anonymous
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Oyster already feeds to Oyster Adams Middle school in Dupont Circle Kalorama area. So you would want to shift their feeder for high school to Rosevelt, which makes excellent sense to me.
Parents may flip out. |
Anonymous
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Is anyone actually committed to changing the boundary?
I mean has someone at the Dep Mayor for Ed, or someone like that, have they said that this is going to happen? Sometime soon? |
Anonymous
It would be quite interesting if Wilson/ DCPS targeted Hispanics and bilinguals to kick them out. |
Anonymous
| The thing with Wilson is that there's no "targeting to kick people out." Deal and Wilson are full, so action needs to be taken You have to limit intake, not tell students in 7th grade or 11th grade to get their education elsewhere. So that's why people are talking about the next line of feeders over - the ones in Ward 1 and 4 schools. |
Anonymous
| I feel like this discussion could be better informed with information on residences of students at Ward 3's deal MS and Wilson HS. If you could tell me that Ward 1 and 4 students together are a large part of the Wilson feeder pattern, it would make me believe the solutions belong in Wards 1 and 4. If your issue is that Wilson is full of students who started in Ward 3 elementaries from out-of-boundary from Ward 7 and 8 and moved up through feeder rights, that's a different problem and solution set. |
Anonymous
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I think this idea may draw some of the Hispanic families but I don't think it will have the impact you're hoping of drawing more upper/middle income families to McFarland. Many of those families at Bancroft are there specifically because it feeds to Deal. (This is especially true of the OOB ones). Without the Deal feeder pattern, Bancroft is less attractive to the upper/middle income folks and more of those Mount Pleasant neighborhood families will go private or charter (many already do).
It will create a more logical dual-language track though. |
Anonymous
Why not feed oyster to McFarland and free up space at Oyster Adams? |
Anonymous
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I think for sure move out Oyster Adams, that reduces the pressure on Wilson, but sow me some numbers.
Keeping Bancroft feeding to Deal and Wilson could be done so everyone does not think this is about Hispanic people. Although lots of non hispanic people go to these two schools also. But otherwise it makes sense given that they are both strong duel language schools. And then there Cardozo High Campus which is running on empty... |
Anonymous
Oh ok. So including Lafayette too, right? |
Anonymous
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Data on student residence by Ward: http://dccouncil.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/budget_responses/Attachment_Q5_-_StudentResidenceByWard.pdf
Wilson HS Ward 1 15.43% Ward 2 4.22% Ward 3 24.87% Ward 4 24.05% Ward 5 10.21% Ward 6 9.85% Ward 7 6.10% Ward 8 5.28% So, loosely, of about 1750-1800 enrollment, 425-450 are from Ward 4 and 275-300 are from Ward 1. And FYI that is about on par with Roosevelt's current enrollment. |
Anonymous
| Who is this guy who keeps talking about Lafayette? And why Lafayette needs to stop getting access to Deal? It seems hard to make something like that workable because of cross-Park transportation limitations and Lafayette's size. |
Anonymous
DP but the size is the selling point. If that many high-SES kids shift to a different feeder, it immediately creates a viable second pyramid. I think that PP brought it up to point out the fact that Ward 4 kids are not the only ones attending from Deal/Wilson by right from a different ward (while Ward 1 kids are never criticized as interlopers for the same thing), but it's an interesting idea if the goal is really to get another viable DCPS option for more families. |
Anonymous
Well if they have room at McFarland, I don't know. But Cardozo is way closer, and they could build a decent language program there. Nice campus but hard to divert those going Wilson to a school that is basically moving kids up each year even though they don't pass. I cannot imagine DCPS even trying to make that proposal go down, even though it makes sense in many ways and more sense than McFarland. And what would you do with the Oyster Adams building? A mini high school for the neighborhood? |